Hongfa: Winning the Relay Race

It’s strange to think, now, that Hongfa is barely more than thirty years old. Producing over a billion relays each year from largely-automated factories, they’ve become one of the go-to companies when relays are needed for industrial or domestic appliance control, telecommunication, automotive and security applications, with around 160 series of relays and nearly 40,000 specific items available to cater to each of these markets.

Here at JPR Electronics, we’re very familiar with their miniature PCB and power relays as they’re always in high demand from our customers, and for several good reasons:

• Competitive pricing

• Relatively low power consumption

• Compact size making for savings in board space

• Functional equivalents to the industry standards

That last one is particularly important, as Hongfa relays are often cheaper and more energy efficient than the industry standard but provide the same functionality, making them a great alternative to the big names which provide a saving on your bottom line.

You have to ask; if they’d become established earlier, would Hongfa be designing alternatives to industry standards, or would they have become the industry standard?

However, there’s a much more important question to ask for many engineers and designers who come to JPR for their components. Hongfa produce high-quality, competitively-priced relays suitable for a wide range of industrial and non-industrial uses, and in many cases their relays have advantages over the leading brand for a lower price.